Publications by Maria Laura Blefari

The Architectonic Experience of Body and Space in Augmented Interiors

Olaf Blanke, Isabella Maria Pasqualini, Andrea Serino, Maria Laura Blefari

The environment shapes our experience of space in constant interaction with the body. Architectonic interiors amplify the perception of space through the bodily senses; an effect also known as embodiment. The interaction of the bodily senses with the space ...

Frontiers Media2018

Bilateral Rolandic operculum processing underlying heartbeat awareness reflects changes in bodily self-consciousness

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Andrea Serino, Roy Salomon, Roberto Martuzzi, Javier Bello Ruiz, Maria Laura Blefari

Exteroceptive bodily signals (including tactile, proprioceptive and visual signals) are important information contributing to self-consciousness. Moreover, prominent theories proposed that visceral signals about internal bodily states are equally or even m ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Upper limb cortical maps in amputees with targeted muscle and sensory reinnervation

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Wietske Van der Zwaag, Roy Salomon, Giulio Rognini, Roberto Martuzzi, Elisa Canzoneri, Michel Akselrod, Maria Laura Blefari

Neuroprosthetics research in amputee patients aims at developing new prostheses that move and feel like real limbs. Targeted muscle and sensory reinnervation (TMSR) is such an approach and consists of rerouting motor and sensory nerves from the residual li ...

Oxford University Press2017

Improvement in precision grip force control with self-modulation of primary motor cortex during motor imagery

Roger Gassert, Maria Laura Blefari

Motor imagery (MI) has shown effectiveness in enhancing motor performance. This may be due to the common neural mechanisms underlying MI and motor execution (ME). The main region of the ME network, the primary motor cortex (M1), has been consistently linke ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2015

Bodies and objects: Biofeedback response from architectonic experience

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Isabella Maria Pasqualini, Elisa Canzoneri, Maria Laura Blefari

Springer Heidelberg2015